Vlad Trifa

Vlad Trifa is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution for the last 15 years. Currently, he is the founder & CEO of ZIMT AG - a Web3 Studio that builds tools and services to help organisations easily integrate and leverage Blockchain technologies.

Previously, he was the Chief Product Officer & CTO at Ambrosus and oversees the engineering team and the development of their core technology. Before that, he led Swisscom’s Digital Lab, a B2B incubator for digital transformation. As a pioneer of the Internet of Things, he spent over a decade designing and building enterprise-grade IoT solutions for major corporations. In 2011, he co-founded and was Chief Product Officer at EVRYTHNG, an award-winning IoT cloud platform used by numerous Fortune 100 companies which was sold to Digimarc in 2022.

In previous lives, he was a researcher and engineer at MIT where he built smart cities platforms to collect and analyse massive amounts of real-time data; at SAP where he connected industrial IoT systems to ERP applications; at UCLA where he built distributed sensor systems to help biologists study animal communication in the forests of Mexico and California; and at ATR in Japan where he designed neural models of sensory-motor coordination for humanoid robots. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and a MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from EPFL.